{"id":138748,"date":"2025-10-22T17:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/138748\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T17:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:29:06","slug":"heartache-as-body-found-in-search-for-missing-letterkenny-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/138748\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartache as body found in search for missing Letterkenny teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The search for Derry man Seamus Quinn has been stood down following the discovery of a body.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr Quinn, a much-loved teacher at Loreto Letterkenny, had been missing from his home since Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>His family had been supported by police in Northern Ireland and garda\u00ed in Donegal during the widespread search.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"332\" data-end=\"439\">His daughter Caitl\u00edn shared the heartbreaking news on behalf of the family this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"441\" data-end=\"593\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\u201cSadly, the search has now been called off. Our wonderful husband and daddy has been found,\u201d Caitl\u00edn wrote online, adding that the family is \u201ctotally heartbroken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"441\" data-end=\"593\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Ms Quinn also shared the family\u2019s thanks to those who helped by sharing posts, messages and supporting the search.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"441\" data-end=\"593\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">A garda spokesperson said: \u201cFollowing the discovery of a body, the missing person appeal for Seamus Quinn (63) who was reported missing from Derry since the 21st October 2025, has been stood down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>May he rest in peace.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Heartache as body found in search for missing Letterkenny teacher was last modified:  October 22nd, 2025 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The search for Derry man Seamus Quinn has been stood down following the discovery of a body. Mr&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-138748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}